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Doesnt Firefox do this natively?
Yeah there is currently a bit of overlap, but even with my software in it’s current state, it has password protecting a PDF, merging PDFs, reordering pages and adding input fields, all of which Firefox doesn’t have. And, I’m just getting started with this, lots more features to be imminently!
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Yeah there is currently a bit of overlap, but even with my software in it’s current state, it has password protecting a PDF, merging PDFs, reordering pages and adding input fields, all of which Firefox doesn’t have. And, I’m just getting started with this, lots more features to be imminently!
As long as you are aware of projects like pdf24 and stirling pdf.
BreezePDF doesn't send any data to the server, and for even further assurance, I'll be releasing the editor as a downloadable desktop version very soon.
very nice !
Very nice, thank you !
Why would you want functionality like this to be in a browser? Isn't a browser for interfacing to http?
The functionality isn’t actually in the browser, it’s in the files downloaded via HTTP.
I use stirling-pdf for this, ran locally with docker run -d -p 8080:8080 -e DOCKER_ENABLE_SECURITY=false --name stirling-pdf frooodle/s-pdf:latest Lots of features, OP you should definitely check this out
Thanks for making this, and making it freely available. I actually have a use case for your other product: pdfredactoronline.com as I need to redact personal info on job applications, and I'm delighted to have come across it in this thread. Thanks for solving a problem.
I’m glad it can be of use!
Nice one. Since it's a Free in browser pdf editor, Why is it not on GitHub ?
Besides, most people working with PDFs aren't developers who wouldn't be able to host it locally on their own.
My wife hit a wall trying to upload a hefty PDF - every “shrink” tool we tried barely compressed the size, and some even made it larger! Frustrated by the state of PDF compressors (looking at you, Adobe), I turned to LLMs - Claude, Deepseek, and Gemini came up short, but OpenAI’s o4-mini saved the day with a perfect solution. That inspired me to build pdfmini: a tiny, open‑source, client‑side HTML app that crushes PD…
Well so I glanced at what that project does. Congratulations, you've managed to "compress" PDF files by rasterizing every page to JPEG, while destroying all the vector and textual information in it. The resulting PDF is nothing like the input -- it's just a bunch of blurry JPEG images wrapped in a PDF format. You can't search or copy the text, and trying to print it will just make a blurry mess of the text.